Chapter Forty
In Kabul – in the two-storey detached house on Vazir Akbarkhon Street that was the IMU’s headquarters – Yosir was informed that the Tashkent bombings had been carried out by the Uzbek authorities themselves. They told him: We were preparing our jihad, but planning it for a later time, the time when the snow will melt in the mountains and all the other conditions will be right for an invasion will be ready. Yosir, who had just arrived from Hoit, knew that although May was almost over, the snow was still lying, not only on the summits but on the slopes of all the surrounding mountains.
Well then, Yosir accepted in his heart that they had not carried out the explosions, but what about the seventeen men from Khorezm who had just been killed, news of whom had even reached this
